On the 30th anniversary of the Air India bombing, Lata Pada reflects on her daughters' unfulfilled dreams

Thirty years ago today, Air India Flight 182 was blown out of the sky by terrorists. The debris wasscattered in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland.All 329 people on board were killed.

Lata Pada's husband Vishnu and her daughters, Arti and Brinda, were among the dead. Today, Pada can't help but think about who her girls could have become.

"Who knows where they might have been," she tells As It Happens host Carol Off. "Brinda would be 48 and Arti would be 45."

Pada is still in touch with her daughters' friends.

"They'veall grown up and gotten married and havechildren. And they're very much a part of my life and that's the greatest blessing that I have."

After the attack, Padabecame an advocate for the families of the victims. And she immersed herself in her work -- dance.

Nearly 15 years after the bombing, she created an autobiographical show about her griefcombining music, classical Indian dance, video and archival soundcalled "Revealed By Fire." She spoke to As It Happens in 2002 about the show andhow the loss of her family changed her:

As It Happens9:23From the As It Happens archives: Lata Pada in 2002

Lata Pada's autobiographical performance "Revealed By Fire" expressed her grief over the death of her family in the Air India bombing.

"My life centred around my family. When all that is stripped away from you, then you do question," she tells Carol today. "Who are you? What role does destiny play in your life? What were those beautiful years that I spent with them? What did that all mean?"

Pada says that, like Anant Anantaraman, who spoke to As It Happens last night about losinghisfamily on Air India Flight 182, she has now found peace. And so have many of the other families she's stayed in touch with.

"It's a sense of destiny or karma that allows us to find that peace and acceptance," she says. "To know that perhaps the reason that you're here and you weren't on that flight is there were some unfulfilled obligations, unfulfilled contributions to society that you could make."